The Small Hand & Dolly by Susan Hill

Author:Susan Hill [Hill, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-80666-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

“ADAM?”

She did not look worried then. Only puzzled.

“That was someone from school. They wanted Hugo.”

“Yes?”

“Gordon Newitt.”

I did not understand.

“The Head of Sports. He wanted Hugo. I said he was probably still having a drink with the team. But he said Hugo wasn’t refereeing anything this afternoon. There was only one match and that was away. He wasn’t there.”

She came further into the room and sat down suddenly. “He wasn’t refereeing any match.” She said it again in a dull voice, but her expression was still one of bewilderment, as if she were trying to make sense of what she had heard.

It may sound unbelievable to say that it was then that I knew, at that precise moment. That I knew everything, as if it had been given to me whole and entire and in every detail. I knew.

But then what I knew shattered into fragments again and I heard myself saying that the sports master had surely got it wrong, that perhaps Hugo had swapped places with someone without saying so, or that he might have gone elsewhere and confused his diary, hadn’t had time to tell us, that …

I heard my own voice babbling uselessly on, saw Benedicte watching my face, as if she would read there what had really happened, where Hugo was.

And then there was a long and terrible moment of silence before I got up.

“I think I should ring the police,” I said.

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